Eleutherodactylus glanduliferoides Shreve, 1936

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Eleutherodactylidae > Subfamily: Eleutherodactylinae > Genus: Eleutherodactylus > Species: Eleutherodactylus glanduliferoides

Eleutherodactylus glanduliferoides Shreve, 1936, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 15: 96. Holotype: MCZ 21597, by original designation. Type locality: "near La Visite, La Selle Range, 5000–7000 ft., [Département de l'Ouest,] Haiti".

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) gladuliferoidesHedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 323; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Euhyas glanduliferoidesFrost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 361; Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 433.

English Names

La Visite Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 75).

La Selle Grassfrog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 10). 

Distribution

Known only from the vicinity of the type locality (near La Visite) in the Massif de La Selle, Haiti, 1515–2121 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Haiti

Endemic: Haiti

Comment

See comment under Eleutherodactylus eunaster. In the Eleutherodactylus varleyi group, according to Shreve and Williams, 1963, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 129: 339. Placed in the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) bakeri series by Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 323. Reviewed by Schwartz, 1983, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 322: 1. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) abbotti series, Eleutherodactylus abbotti group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 225. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) oxyrhyncus species series, Eleutherodactylus bakeri species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 74. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) oxyrhyncus species series, Eleutherodactylus jugans species group of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 130.See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 341. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 52, summarized the natural history literature. Ríos-López, 2023, In Rios-Lopez and Heatwole (eds.), Conserv. Biogeograph. Amph. Caribb.: 218–262, discussed conservation status in Haiti and related issues.

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